Eating in Paris

Macarons at Ladurée, Rue Royale Even on our very first visit to Paris, almost twenty years ago, with four kids in tow, we managed to enjoy some of the wonderful food available, although for the…

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blogging elsewhere

In case you’re interested, I’ve set up another blog — Materfamilias Reads — where I can keep track of books I’ve read and offer the occasional review or, more often, a brief comment about what…

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Tim Bowling’s The Lost Coast

I’m not sure if I’ll keep this blog up, but I’m finding Materfamilias Writes, my other home on the web, is getting a bit too cluttered. As well, I’m not sure how much my readers…

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here and there, this and that

Here,when I photographed the yellows and whites in my garden last week, the Romneya Coulteri (California tree poppy) buds were still doing this, beautifully. They’re not at all subtle now, but they are stunning. I’m…

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Summer reds

Paterfamilias is on an icebreaker wending his way through “a sea of light,” as he put it — the surrounding ice, after all, reflects the sunlight all twenty-four hours of the day. Oddly, while I’m…

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Copyright

Unless otherwise stated, all words and photographs in this blog are my own. If you wish to use any of them, please give me credit for my work. And it should go without saying, but apparently needs to be said: Do not publish entire posts as your own. I will take the necessary action to stop such theft. Thanks.